The following is a registry of completed doctoral dissertations in American Studies, as reported by U.S. Ph.D. degree-granting institutions in the field. This list is based on requests to American Studies Programs for lists of doctoral dissertations completed between 1 July 1996 and 30 June 1997. The report contains 96 entries whose titles suggest the broad range of topics and diverse methodologies that American Studies scholars are exploring. For abstracts of these and other dissertations completed this year by ASA members, please see the December 1997 American Quarterly. For 1995-1996 abstracts, see the December 1996 American Quarterly.

BOSTON UNIVERSITY (0)

BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY (3)

Cooke, Colleen Vallo: “Cultural and Legal Analysis of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.” Gilman, Richard: “The Unity of Christianity and the Development of Therapeutic Culture in the United States, 1889-1920.” Steele, Steven: “`Subvert the Dominant Paradigm’: Environmentalism, Earth First!, and Oppositional Theory.”

BROWN UNIVERSITY (1)

Yoshihara, Mari: “Women’s Asia: American Women and the Gendering of Orientalism, 1870s to World War II.”

CLAREMONT GRADUATE SCHOOL (3)

Garcia, Matthew: “Colonies, Colonias, and Culture: Intercultural Relations in the Citrus Belt of Southern California, 1900-1960.” Lasar, Matthew: “From Dialogue to Dissent: The Pacifica Foundation and the Cold War, 1942-1964.” Quinonez, Naomi H.: “Hija de la Malinch (Malinche Daughters), the Development of Social Agency Among Mexican American Women and the Emergence of First Wave Chicana Cultural Production.”

COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY (6)

Ashe, Bertram: “From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Fiction.” O’Dell, M. Darlene: “Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katherine DuPre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray.” Sentilles, Renee: “Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken’s American Odyssey.” Tharp, Brent W.: “Preserving Their Form and Features: The Role of Coffins in American Understanding of Death, 1607-1870.” Verplanck, Anne: “Facing Philadelphia: The Social Function of Silhouettes, Miniatures, and Daguerreotypes, 1760-1860.” White, William: “Charltans, Embezzlers and Murderers: The Revolution Comes to Virginia, 1765-1775.”

EMORY UNIVERSITY (1)

Garman, Bryan K.: “Uncommon Men: The Making of the American Working Class Hero, 1855-1996.”

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY (1)

Watson, Justin: “Restoration, Recognition, and the Christian Coalition.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (2)

Cothern, Lynn: “Becoming Western: Gender and Generation in Mary Hallock Foote’s Dual Career.” Evelyn, Douglas: “Public Architecture in an Emerging National Capital: Erecting the Patent Office Building, 1836-1865.”

HARVARD UNIVERSITY (4)

Augst, Thomas: “Making Society Out of Books: Characters, Self-Fashioning, and the Rhetoric of Market Culture in Nineteenth Century America.” Bouricius, Clara: “`A Happier Ending Than is Warranted by the Facts’; or, How E.D.E.N. Southworth Created Sentimental Capitalism, 1849-1886.” Phillips, Catherine Hale: “Helen (Hunt) Jackson and Her Literary Career.” Rosengarten, Dale: “Social Origins of the African-American Low Country Basket.”

INDIANA UNIVERSITY (2)

Brown, Robert S.: “Football as a Rhetorical Site of National Reassurance: Managing the Crisis of the Kennedy Assassination.” Murphy, Paul V.: “The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought.”

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY (3)

Bauer, Ralph: “Epic Narratives in British America and Spanish America, 1650-1800.” Miller, Jeffrey: “Something Completely Different: British Television and American Culture, 1960-1980.” Paino, Troy: “The Righteous at Play: The Cultural Meanings of Early Twentieth-Century Indiana High School Basketball.”

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (4)

Burr, Martha: “If Susan B. Anthony Wants to Vote…Let Her Take a Scalp: History and Iconography of the Cowgirl, 1875-Present.” Cantarella, Marcia: “Participatory Capitalism: Individual Self-Actualization in the Evolution of American Business.” Cherches, Peter: “Star Course: Popular Lectures and the Marketing of Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century America.” Dievler, James: “Sexual Exiles: Edith Wharton, Henry Miller, and James Baldwin and the Culture of Sex and Sexuality in New York City.”

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY (4)

Benson, Gwen. Carreiro, Amy. Heflin, Ruth. Wharry, Cheryl H.: `I’m Gonna Preach It, Amen’: Discourse Functions of Formulaic Expressions in African American Sermons.”

PURDUE UNIVERSITY (3)

Baham, Eva Semien: “Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, A Stream Cannot Rise Higher Than Its Source: The Vanguard as the Panacea for the Plight of Black America.” Buckman, Alyson R.: “The Monster Fights Back: The Creation of Rupture in Figurations of Monstrosity by Women.” Miller, Kathy K.: “Rural Women’s Role in Community Building and Institution Building in Indiana From 1900-1980.”

SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY (6)

Banks, Michael: “George S. Kaufman: American Social Critic Onstage.” Elmore-McCrary, Dawn: “Culture in the Basic Writing Classroom.” Norris, F. Terry: “French Colonial Settlements in the Central Mississippi River Valley-Identification and Assessment of the Archaeological Remains of the Illinois Country Villagers.” Nygard, Paul: “Man of Maine: A Life of Robert P. Tristram Coffin.” Uhl, Timothy: “The Naming of St. Louis Catholic Parishes.” Warshaeur, Matthew: “In the Beginning Was New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law.”

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BUFFALO (6)

Bauza, Yadmilla: “Yo Lo Que Sé de Catalina Loango . . . Orality and the Construction of Gender in the Caribbean.” Boukari, Safoura: “RETROUVAILLES: A Comparative Meditation on Black Women’s Histories, Experiences and the Quest for Sisterhood.” Fairchild, Charles: “Community Radio and Public Culture.” Henderson, Behjat: “Reversing the Lens: Voices and Images of Iranian Women.” Progler, Joseph: “Encountering Islam: Essays in Cultural History and Representation.” Richard, Jolene: “Indigenous and Iroquoian Art as Knowledge: In the Shadow of the Eagle.”

UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII, MANOA (3)

Bengiveno, Teri Ann: Campus Based Women’s Center: An Analysis of the Development and Survival of a Student Run Center in the Struggle for Gender Equity in Higher Education.” Blair, Robert Chad: “Democracy in Hawaii: Class, Race, and Gender in Local Politics.” Chess, Sonia Mary: “Watching Daughters From Another Shore: Recurring Motifs of Lost Identity and Power Struggles in American Chinese Women’s Matrilineal Literature.”

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (2)

Hedges, Andrew H.: “Strangers, Foreigners, and Fellow Citizens: Protestant Indian Missions in New England and the Middle Colonies, 1642-1781.” Worthington, Daniel E.: “American Research Universities and the Great War, 1916-1920.”

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND (5)

Hare, John: “Images of the Family in the Ante-Bellum Virginia Novel.” Miller, Joyce: “The Southern Belle in American Cinema.” Taylor, Dabrina: “Fair Lady, Huckleberry Friend.” Weinstein, David: “Washington’s Window to the World.” Zenzen, Joan M.: “Promoting National Parks: Images of the West in the American Imagination.”

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (2)

Fairman, Deborah: “`Unhampered Child of Liberty’: Modernity, Representation and American Jewish Women, 1890-1930.” Schmidt, Matthew: “The American Youth Film: Multicultural Rites of Passage in Modern Cinema.”

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (7)

Dupuis, Reshela: “Documenting Community: Activist Videograph in Hawai’i.” McGuire, Mary: “Disciplining the State: Organized Civil Servants, State Formation and the Politics of Identity in the United States.” Niatum, Duane: “Shamanism, Mythology, and the Art of John Hoover, Aleut Sculptor.” Porter, Eric: “`Out of the Blue’: The Challenge of Black Creative Music, 1940-1995.” Rogers, Mark: “Beyond BANG! POW! ZAP!: Reading Comics in Context.” Shavelson, Susanne: “From Amerike to America: Language and Identity in the Yiddish and English Biographies of Jewish Immigrant Women.” Won, Joseph: “Yellowface Minstrelsy: Asian Martial Arts and the American Popular Imaginary.”

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA (12)

Anderson, Elizabeth: “Studio D, the NFB and the Construction of National Cultural Identity in Canada 1974-Present.” Austin, Joe: “Taking the Train: Graffiti Writing, Urban Space, and Subcultural Aesthetics in New York City.” Bates, Carla: “Minding the Poor: Welfare Reform and Nationalist Politics from the New Deal to the War on Poverty.” Dietzel, Susanne: “Representations of Landscape in Narratives by Southern Women.” Green, Susan M.: “Zoot Suiters: Past and Present.” Harris, Miriam: “From Kennedy to Combahee: Black Feminist Activism From 1960-1980.” Hill, Roberta Whitman: “Her Inconspicuous Way: A Biography of Dr. Lilli Rosa Minoka Hill, Mohawk Physician.” Murphy, Karen: “Reconstructing the Nation: An Examination of Interracial Intimacy, the Progressive Period and the Second Reconstruction.” Patterson, Caitlin: “`Wising Up the Neighborhood’: Creating Democratic Art From the Settlement House to the New Deal.” Qi, Xiaoxin: “The Midwest Women Missionaries in China: 1900-1950.” Snell, Theron: “Orphans in the Storm: A Collective Experience of War: The 978th Engineer Maintenance Company in World War II.” Torres, Eden: “Caras vemos, corazones no sabemas/ Their Faces We See, Their Hearts We Don’t Know: Chicana Writers in Context.”

UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO (5)

Coleman, Jeffrey: “Transforming Words/Revolutionizing Verses: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement.” Estelle, Amy: “The Poetics and Politics of a Female Gendered Planet.” McDonald, Margaret Espinosa: “`Vamos Todos A Belen’: Cultural Transformations of the Hispanic Community in the Rio Abajo Community of Belen, New Mexico From 1850-1950.” Monikowski, Richard: “The Actual State of Things: American Indians, Indian Law, and American Courts Between 1800-1835.” Singer, Beverly R.: “Film and Video Made by Native Americans: A Cultural Examination of Native American Participation in Film and Video Production.”

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN (5)

Bednar, Robert M.: “Images of the Land of Images: Contemporary Visions of the American West.” Davis, Timothy M.: “George Washington Memorial Parkway, Washington D.C.” Hauck, Gerald: “The Mann Family in American Exile: 1936-1950.” Jackson, Robert W. “Spanning the Father: A History of the First Bridge Across the Mississippi at St. Louis.” Rice, Kathleen: “Notations of the Heart”: The Wood Engraving Illustrations of Clare Leighton, 1929-1954.” Troy, Tevi: “Ideas in Action: White House Intellectuals and the Modern Presidency.” Turner, Catherine: “Marketing Modernism: Advertising Modern Literature in the United States Between the Wars.”

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH (2)

Gesteland-McShane, Becky Jo: “Beyond Cultural Authenticity: The Patterned Identities of Women’s Southwestern Autobiographies, 1932-1955.” King, Robert: “Tales of Enchantment: The Southwest in Modern Culture.”

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY (1)

Owens, Jay Barcley: “Cultural Myths in Cormac McCarthy’s Southwestern Novels.”

YALE UNIVERSITY (4)

Allen, Holly: “Fallen Women and Forgotten Men: Gendered Concepts of Concepts of Community, Home and Nation, 1992-1995.” Lester, Jody: “Power and Marginality: The Politics of Writing About Black and/or Lesbian Identity.” McFadden, Margaret: “Anything Goes: Gender and Knowledge in the Comic Popular Culture of the 1930s.” Rice, Stephen: “Minding the Machine: Language of Class in Early Industrial America, 1820-1860.”